Re: Git has been granted the Famous Software Award - Download.FamousWhy.com

Re: Git has been granted the Famous Software Award - Download.FamousWhy.com

[Sverre Rabbelier]

Heya,

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 08:33,  <contact@famouswhy.com> wrote:
> Your product "Git (http://download.famouswhy.com/git/)" has been granted the "Famous Software Award" by Download.FamousWhy.com.

Are you spam?

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Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier

Re: Git has been granted the Famous Software Award - Download.FamousWhy.com

[Marc Weber]

Excerpts from Sverre Rabbelier's message of Thu Jul 15 21:02:43 +0200 2010:
> Heya,

> Are you spam?
If it was spam you would find more of it using google. I checked (not
too carefully though). They may award any project once a month or so.

On the other hand the git page is a nice place to put backlinks on.

So maybe it depends on how you define spam :)

Marc Weber

Re: Git has been granted the Famous Software Award - Download.FamousWhy.com

[A Large Angry SCM]

On 07/15/2010 04:47 PM, Marc Weber wrote:
> Excerpts from Sverre Rabbelier's message of Thu Jul 15 21:02:43 +0200 2010:
>> Heya,
>
>> Are you spam?
> If it was spam you would find more of it using google. I checked (not
> too carefully though). They may award any project once a month or so.
>
> On the other hand the git page is a nice place to put backlinks on.
>
> So maybe it depends on how you define spam :)

It fits my definition of SEO (search engine optimization) SPAM.

* The backlink appears to be what is valuable to them since they make a 
number of promises of things they will do (implied: only) in return for 
a backlink.

* The site appears to be advertising supported.

Re: Git has been granted the Famous Software Award - Download.FamousWhy.com

[Adrian Barbu - Webmaster]

Marc Weber <marco-oweber <at> gmx.de> writes:

> 
> Excerpts from Sverre Rabbelier's message of Thu Jul 15 21:02:43 +0200 2010:
> > Heya,
> 
> > Are you spam?
> If it was spam you would find more of it using google. I checked (not
> too carefully though). They may award any project once a month or so.
> 
> On the other hand the git page is a nice place to put backlinks on.
> 
> So maybe it depends on how you define spam :)
> 
> Marc Weber
> 


Hello Marc, 

This is definitely not a spam message. We usually award some of the most popular
software we consider as being famous and we also download, install, test and
then write the following things for the awarded software:

- write a review focused on the "fame" reasons of that software;

- write a tutorial

- create few polls

- create few frequently asked questions

- write an article

- take a short online interview to the publisher, of course if that would be
possible.

All the things above are free of cost and we do them only for the software we
consider as being famous.

Thank you very much for your interest in our website.

Adrian Barbu - Webmaster
http://download.famouswhy.com/
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